Display Patriot - P-277932 - Mrs Abigail Marie/Maria HARTMAN/RICE

Mrs Abigail Marie/Maria HARTMAN/RICE

SAR Patriot #: P-277932

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A094808

Birth: 04 Sep 1742 / / Germany
Death: 06 Nov 1789 Pikeland / Chester / PA

Qualifying Service Description:

Patriotic nurse, Yellow Springs Hospital, Chester County, PA


Additional References:
  1. SAR #124836
  2. Philadelphia Germans in the Revolution
  3. "Chester County and Its People", pg 236
  4. Tutkey, "History of Chester County", pg 81 & 101
  5. Emig, "Records of the Annual Hench & Drumgold Reunion", 1913
  6. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004

Spouse: Zachariah Rice
Children: Margaret; Henry; George; John; Susan; Sally; Peter; Conrad; Anna;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1943-06-12 NY Unassigned Rafael Shively Figueroa (61992) George   
1984-06-27 PA Unassigned John Todd Stewart Jr (124203) Henry   
1984-07-10 VA Unassigned James Kirk Waters Jr (119377) Susan   
1984-10-30 PA Unassigned David Maclary Stewart (124836) Henry   
1998-04-24 PA 441 James Paul Throne (144091) Margaret   
2001-02-13 AZ 8565 John Howard Candioto (155240) Henry   
2005-05-13 AZ 22569 Mark Howard Candioto (164863) Henry   
Burial:
Saint Peters Pikeland UCC (aka Lower Pikeland, Saint Peter's German Reformed, Saint Peter's Lower Hill, Saint Peter's Reformed, Saint Peter's United Church of Christ) Cemetery (C-0119907)
Location:
Pikeland / Chester / PA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2274598
Grave Plot #:
row 19
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
32238493
Marker Type:
flat, horizontal, new, legible
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Image provided with permission from Dan Oh, Find-a-Grave member # 46803017
  • The stone appears to have been placed in the last quarter of the 20th century and has an unidentifed bronze stake marker next to it. It is unclear if this replaced an earlier stone


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Saint Peter’s Pikeland United Church of Christ, which originated as a German Reformed Congregation, is located part way down Pikeland Hill on Clover Mill Road in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. The church is known locally as the “Lower Pikeland Church” or simply the “Lower Church.”



Author: Albert E. Myers
Abigail's husband helped build the Yellow Springs Hospital near his home in Chester County, which would soon be used as a field hospital for the casualties of the war.

Abigail spent time ministering to the sick and wounded soldiers. As a result of her service there she contracted typhus, which would later cause her death.

During the retreat from Brandywine, Washington and his staff officers stopped at the Rice farm and asked Abigail if they could have some water. She sent a daughter for a pitcher of water to which she added some sugar, spices, and rum, making a drink that was popularly known as 'flip'. Abigail handed the drink and said, 'Here, my Lord.' Washington quickly replied, 'We have no titles here, we are all brothers.' As General Washington drank, Abigail's five-year-old daughter, Susannah, approached. Washington smiled, picked her up, and sat her on his knee while he finished his drink.

For Abigail's contributions during the war, a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution had her name in Washington, DC. There is also a plaque in her honor in the Bell Tower at Valley Forge.

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